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To: RepnikK who wrote (80343)	12/17/2001 3:44:13 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi RepnikK; Some comments: (1) The high prices for DDR are due to extremely high spot buying, and this is supposedly temporary (as in maximum 3 months.) Companies like Dell, that buy direct on contract from the memory makers are paying considerably cheaper prices. (2) PC2400 is an expensive boutique memory, just like RDRAM. Look at pricing of PC2100 for more reasonable prices. PC2100 is $20 on pricewatch right now, which means that PC800 is at a 50% premium. (3) You're leaving off the price adder that RDRAM brings to a motherboard. Go grab prices for DDR and RDRAM motherboards for the P4 and compare. RDRAM based motherboards are special. (4) You're leaving off the fact that RDRAM needs to have continuation cards for empty slots. (5) You're ignoring the fact that 128MB really isn't enough memory for high end modern computers. You selected memory types that are considerably more expensive than the usual, so they would only go in high end computers. You should probably be pricing 256MB modules instead. I can't imagine someone buying a high end computer and putting less than 512MB on it, at least with these memory prices. -- Carl